Football manager is a game that I personally have sunk hour after hour of my time into. With no regret I might add. It is far too easy to become completely enveloped in the virtual world of the daily running of your own football club.
And, like most people, I wrote off these hours as time that I would not get back, that I had got little from other than amusing myself during downtime.
But one man, a 21 year old named Vugar Guloglan oglu Huseynzade, has gone one step further. He has used his experience in the game to land himself an actual managerial position at his local club. This young man from Azerbaijan, with no other previous experience other than his prowess in the game, has been named manager of Baku after their previous manager left the position.
Now, you say, he must have been the only applicant? Willing to work for free? The son of the oil-rich owner?
Nope. Not even close. He was actually chosen ahead of Marseille and France legend Jean-Pierre Papin, whose previous managerial experience includes several teams in his homeland of France.
So, as it turns out, spending endless hours hunched over a computer screen or with a controller clutched in your hands really can make you future (I told you mum).
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